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CHAPTER VI PROCESSES TO COMPEL APPEARANCE · B.—Warrant of arrest

Section 78: Person arrested to be brought before Court without delay

The Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023

The police officer or other person executing a warrant of arrest shall (subject to the provisions of section 73 as to security) without unnecessary delay bring the person arrested before the Court before which he is required by law to produce such person:

Provided that such delay shall not, in any case, exceed twenty-four hours exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Magistrate's Court.

Corresponding CrPC provision

As given in the correspondence table of the National Crime Records Bureau (Ministry of Home Affairs). Read both texts before relying on it. NCRB table

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